Here at Rythmos 1656 we have designed our spaces as a great place for Rythmos presenters and staff, listeners and online audiences from across the country and around the world to get together to chat with other like minded people.

While we want you to feel free to express yourself, we also expect that everyone will treat each other with mutual respect in these spaces – even if your opinion differs from others. Play nice!

Conditions of use

• You may be held legally responsible for the content you submit to Rythmos 1656.

• Your contribution may be edited, removed or not published if Rythmos 1656 considers it to be:

• defamatory, or otherwise unlawful or that it violates laws regarding harassment, discrimination, privacy or contempt;

• intentionally false or misleading;

• an infringement of intellectual property rights or copyright. See below for further information on copyright;

• abusive or offensive, including obscenity, blasphemy and racial vilification;

• of nuisance value, inappropriate, off topic or vexatious. For example Rythmos 1656 reserves the right to reject contributions from participants who seek to dominate the discussion;

• compromising the privacy of yourself, other contributors or of Rythmos 1656 staff or containing inappropriate personal information;

• seeking to endorse commercial products or activities or to solicit business;

• deliberate provocation of other community members;

• a posting on behalf of a suspended member. This may lead to you also having your membership locked.

• Rythmos 1656 reserves the right to archive and republish all contributions to its interactive features across all platforms.

• Contributors should be aware that their posts may remain online indefinitely. As indicated below (4.1) Rythmos 1656 strongly recommends that contributors use a pen name or pseudonym as their login name and not use their real name.

• Rythmos 1656 reserves the right to use contributions for internal training purposes.

• Repeated breaches of these Conditions of Use may cause Rythmos 1656 to complain to the Internet Service Provider of the person responsible, and in very serious cases, initiate legal action.

Copyright

• Material published on the internet is protected by the same laws of copyright which apply to books, videos and music.

• The right to “copy” always remains with the owner of the material. Unless expressly stated otherwise, you are not permitted to copy or republish anything you find on the internet without the copyright owner’s permission.

• If you wish to refer to material on someone else’s website we recommend you include an attribution in your message. Rythmos 1656 publishes links to other websites at its sole discretion.

• Under Australian copyright law, limited quotation is permissible in the context of genuine review and criticism. However this does not permit extensive quoting of song lyrics etc.

• When you submit content, in any format, you acknowledge that you have all necessary rights, including copyright, in the material that you are contributing to Rythmos 1656. You agree that Rythmos 1656 may use the material online and in whatever other ways Rythmos1656 chooses, now and in the future.

Comments and Complaints

• Contributions made to interactive features will not be treated as program or service complaints. Rythmos 1656 has a variety of complaint handling mechanisms available to members of the audience who wish to complain about Rythmos 1656 programming material. Details about how to lodge a complaint can be found at www.rythmos1656.com.au

• Complaints or comments about the content and management of particular interactive features can be made via the website www.rythmos1656.com.au and the respective emails there.

Registration and Login Names

• Rythmos 1656 recommends that applicants register online using a pen name or pseudonym as their login name (not their real name). Applicants must not intentionally use the name of another living person.

• Rythmos 1656 may refuse registration of visitors whose suggested login names are considered inappropriate.

Grounds for dismissal may include

• offensive content;

• obscenity;

• abuse;

• defamatory content;

• contempt;

• incitement;

• copyright infringement;

• brand names or registered trademarks;

• company or organisation names;

• names of high-profile or public figures; or

• names promoting political, religious, social or economic issues.

• Rythmos 1656 reserves the right to refuse suggested login names at its sole discretion.

• Rythmos 1656 will not accept any registration that Rythmos 1656 suspects is being made by or on behalf of a member who has been suspended for repeated violation of these conditions of use.

• Repeated breaches of these Conditions of Use may cause Rythmos 1656 to lock and/or delete member registrations.